唐传奇《玄怪录》恐怖审美探赜

A Brief Study on the Horror Aesthetics of the Tang Legend Xuan Guai Lu

牛僧孺所作的《玄怪录》是中唐时期著名的传奇小说集,描写了大量狰狞可怖的形象和场景。在鬼怪形象的塑造上,牛僧孺用外形的模糊和畸形表现出鬼怪的狰狞可怖;从听觉、触觉的角度将恐怖具象化;在环境塑造上,则通过将故事时间、背景聚焦在黑夜,建构阴司地府的手法渲染恐怖氛围。《玄怪录》中恐怖审美的形成与人类对待恐怖的心理、中国独特的民族文化心理以及牛僧孺所处的时代及其个性有关。

Niu Sengru’s Xuan Guai Lu is a famous collection of legendary stories in the Middle Tang Dynasty,with descriptions of a large number of horrific images and scenes.Niu Sengru creates ferocious and terrifying images of ghosts and monsters by obfuscating and deforming them,and he concretizes the horror with auditory and sensory description.In terms of environment description,Niu sets the time of the story at night and constructs the nether world to render a frightening atmosphere.The formation of horror aesthetics in Xuan Guai Lu is related to human psychology towards terror,the unique national cultural psychology of China,the times Niu Sengru lived in and his personality.